Mr Glyns Pickups
Mr Glyns Pickups are individually made near Auckland, New Zealand. From low powered Vintage to powerful ROCK pickups. Designed combining experience, intuition and science. Road-tested by players on stage and in studios. Packaged with care for you and the planet. Food for amplifiers
Mr Glyns Pickups
We manufacture a wide range of electric guitar pickups. Strat® pickups with that sought after vintage vibe for Hendrix or Frusciante tones to a more powerful SRV feel.
We make a range of Tele® pickups from low powered sets with smooth country twang to hot full bodied Telecaster® pickups. There’s the Duchess set for a Springsteen or Keith Richards feel or the Pandora for an Esquire®.
There is a range of humbuckers. Vintage voices PAF types to more powerful rock humbuckers to drive your amp over the edge to more contemporary pickups for the modern player.
We make a range of P90 pickups from the woody 50’s sound to smoother clean P90’s as well as humbucker size P90’s.
There are Bass pickups, Jazzmaster® and Filtertron® pickups and plenty more besides.
We are constantly working on new designs and sounds. Have a look around the website and let us know if you don’t find what you need.
My Story
My name is Glyn Evans. I have been a full-time pickup winder and luthier since 1995. I wound my first pickup under the guidance of legendary guitar repairer Ted Lee while studying guitar making/repair under him at City of Leeds College of Music in the North of England. There’s something about the physics that really appealed to me.
I went straight home, built my own winding machine, bought some wire and started experimenting.
In those pre-internet days there just wasn’t any information available on how to make good pickups. I made pickup after pickup, I wound, and I listened. I made notes of every variation both good and bad so I could learn what was happening.
Looking back, I think that time was invaluable for developing an intuition for making pickups.
Whenever I came across a result I didn’t understand, I swatted up on the physics; there’s a lot to learn. I wrote all the experiments down in a notebook; I still have the notebook and I’m still adding to it.
I love hearing my pickups played live or on recordings; it feels good to have played a very small part in that sound.
I’ve been privileged to be able to study firsthand some of the great vintage (and modern) pickups. I have re-wound and repaired countless faulty pickups. Either to restore them to their original state or to improve them. This is how you learn, and I think I will always be learning.